Retail Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Retailing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 29 34
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Retail 20 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.04% 4.45% 3.83%
As % of the General category 7.38% 6.96% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £176 £209 £190
25th Percentile £313 £326 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £700 £201
Median % change year-on-year -42.43% +249.13% -59.90%
75th Percentile £469 £733 £388
90th Percentile £493 £735 £488
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £403 £700 £201
% change year-on-year -42.43% +249.13% -59.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.45 - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.45 - -

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 271 158 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 41.19% 63.97% 59.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 112 110
10th Percentile £334 £214 £223
25th Percentile £432 £325 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £538
90th Percentile £625 £623 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +20.59% -5.56% -11.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.08 £16.61
25th Percentile - £14.98 £18.70
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.56 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -44.80% +124.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £20.90 £36.75
90th Percentile - £29.61 £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.50 £14.37 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.58% -52.10% +121.08%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Retail job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Milton Keynes

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (15.00%) VSAN
2 1 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau Server
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Automotive
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) German Language
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Network Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Network Project Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Development Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Data Governance Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS Field Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) EPoS Field Service Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Payments Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) EPoS
3 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (15.00%) Presales
3 3 (15.00%) SIEM
4 2 (10.00%) B2C
4 2 (10.00%) Business Development
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Data Entry
4 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Time Management
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNP
1 3 (15.00%) CCSE
1 3 (15.00%) CCSM
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP